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The entry in my notebook for May 18 is significant. "Contact 0805. 1 V.C. KIA..." We had been patrolling a gorge fed by a rushing stream that covered up our noise. For once, our point squad spotted the V.C. before they spotted us. For once, we did the ambushing. We...
The settlement will not spare the FBI from Senate hearings scheduled for next month by Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential hopeful who wants to determine just how the attempt to arrest Weaver on a weapons charge got so spectacularly out of hand. For one thing, Specter wants to...
Over the years, Mantle may have lost several fortunes, but he never lost his sense of humor. At a press conference a month after the transplant, Mantle spotted noted collector Barry Halper and asked, "Barry, what did you pay for my old liver?" The prognosis for Mantle was hopeful then...
How worried should Americans be? Plenty, suggests David Quinn, 41, who lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York. An avid jogger, Quinn was stretching in his backyard when he spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a...
Convinced that he had Lyme disease, Quinn dragged himself to the Westchester County Medical Center. After examining him, however, doctors concluded that Quinn didn't have Lyme disease at all. Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least...